StevieJ comments

IMO he just worded what he was trying to say incorrectly. As bad as the Japanese colonization of Korea was, their current modern society is heavily inspired by Japan, but they won't admit that.

You can't say anything positive about Japan to a Korean person in Korea. Just try the sea east of Korea it "Sea of Japan", they get pissed. Or point out to one of the old Korean ladies that the Daiso they love so much is a Japanese company, they'll get livid with you.

You can also blame anything negative about Korea on the Japanese and they'll be ok with that.

Title is misleading. They're not forming one Olympic team, they're forming one combined team for ice hockey only. The players and their parents of the original SK women's ice hockey team are pissed as well. They're upset because 12 SK athletes who worked their ass off to be on the Olympic ice hockey team are getting booted from the team to make room for NK. They're not very happy with President Park forcing them off the team for a political stunt.

Not to mention they haven't practiced together at all. I don't see this combined team wining much of anything.

As most realize, if all the bases closed TOMORROW, and every military person LEFT, the island would economically collapse. Enough already.

Enough already? Enough already with the falsehood of the base being the sole contributor to the local economy on Okinawa, it's not 1950 anymore. The businesses that cater to the bases would take a hit but the island would not collapse economically. The bases make up for less than 5% of the local GDP, it's a very small amount when you consider that developed base land makes way more for the local economy (look at Shintoshin) than it did as a base.

The biggest hit would come from the central government itself as I'd imagine with the bases gone Okinawa would lose a lot of the money it receives from the central government for hosting the bases.

Really? How many users would be upset if someone said this about the A-Bomb museum in Hiroshima? Seriously, people need to calm down and stop jumping to Japan's defense on this issue. Let them have their museum, Japan has their wartime museums despite them committing some atrocities during WWII as well.

I've been reading a lot of comments making excuses for this lady. That .22 ammo boxes are "so small" and it would be easy to leave one in your bag. But anyone with common sense knows that Japan has very strict gun laws. If she used the bag in the past to carry guns/ammo you think she'd have triple checked to make sure no loose ammunition was rolling around her bag before leaving for Japan.

I'd also like to think the TSA would have caught it before she left. But then I remember we're talking about the TSA, one of the most incompetent orginizations in the US with a 95% failure rate.

So dumb, and I'm getting sick of where the console market is going. Are we going to get a new more powerful version of the current gen of console every year? If I wanted to be able to get a more powerful version of the hardware I'm already running I'll build a PC.

my comments are ignorant? The US military is the 3rd largest contributor to the Okinawa economy and generates close to 30% more to the Okinawa economy than tourism.

They are ignorant and Yubaru is right. It's no where near 30% of the local economy it is indeed less than 5%. The number comes from the Okinawa prefectural government as well. That number is also including the money military members spend in the economy to inlcude housing and jobs provided to the locals that work on base.

If you look at the numbers the biggest contributor to the local Okinawa economy is tourism by a far margin. If they were to get the base land back they would develop it and it would earn even more tourist dollars. Just look at Shintoshin, Mihama, and along route 58 between Kadena AB and Camp Foster. All of that used to just be vacant land and since it's return has generated more money for the local economy thant he bases ever did.

Honestly the biggest impact to the local Okinawa economy if the bases left would come in the form of lost subsidies from the Japanese government that they currently recieve for hosting the bases on island.